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090 $aDS708$b.K58 1667
100 1 $aKircher, Athanasius,$d1602-1680.
240 10 $aChina monumentis qua sacris qua profanis ...$f1667.
245 10 $aAthanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu China monumentis :$bqv© sacris qu© profanis, nec non variis naturae & artis spectaculis, aliarumque rerum memorabilium argumentis illustrata, auspiciis Leopoldi Primi Roman. Imper. semper Augusti munificentissimi mecaenatis.
246 17 $aAthanasii Kircheri China illustrata
246 3 $aChina illustrata
260 $bApud Joannem Janssonium © Waesberge & Elizeum Weyerstraet,$cAnno cIc Icc lxvii [1667]$aAmstelodami :
300 $a[16], 237, [11] p., [26] leaves of plates (4 folded) :$bill., maps, ports. ;$c39 cm. (fol.)
500 $aAdded engraved title page bears title: Athanasii Kircheri Soc. Iesv China illvst[rata].
500 $aAdded engraved title page has imprint: "Amstelodami. Apud Johannem Janszonium © Waesberge et Elizei Weyerstraet 1667."
500 $aSignatures: *-2*þ́ A-2Hþ́.
500 $aMain body of text printed in double columns.
500 $aInitials, tailpieces, marginal notes.
500 $aIncludes indexes.
500 $a"Elenchus librorum a P. Athanasio Kirchero ... editorum": 2 p. at end.
505 0 $aMonumenti syro-sinici interpretatio -- De variis itineribus in Chinam susceptis -- De idololatria ex Occidente prim©£m in Persidem, Indiam ac deinde in ultimas Orientis, Tartari©Œ, Chin©Œ, Japponi©Œ regiones successiv©Ø propagatione introducta -- China curiosis natur©Œ & artis miraculis illustrata -- De architectonica c©Œterisque mechanicis artibus Sinensium -- De Sinensium literatura.
520 $aThis work, by Kircher's regular Amsterdam publishers, represents the 1st edition of his "China Illustrata" in Latin. A subsequent unauthorized edition, in a slightly smaller format but with the same text and with artfully copied engravings, was published by Amsterdam printer Jacob van Meurs, also in 1667. When the authorized printers, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge and Elizaeus Weyerstraten (who died shortly thereafter) were apprised of the situation they called for a meeting with Van Meurs, to be mediated by a third Amsterdam printer and attended by a notary public. At this meeting, on 27 June 1667, the aggrieved parties demanded that Van Meurs hand over the entirety of his copy of the work: all his printed copies along with his copper and woodblock plates. Further, he was to cease and desist from publishing this work again. In return Van Meurs received 3,450 florins, which basically covered the costs of his "reprint." Subsequent printings at the shop of Janssonius van Waesberge and Weyerstraten (and later with Weyerstraten's widow) used the slightly smaller engravings that Van Meurs had commissioned, though the text remained precisely the same.
590 $aBurns Library copy 1: 1st ed., 1st printing; bookseller's label at fore-edge of front pastedown: Maisonneuve Freres, 3 Rue de Sabot, Paris ... Libraire Orientale & Am©♭ricain, Livres Anciens & Modernes ...
590 $aBurns Library copy 2: includes Van Meurs versions of the maps and plates; Boston College and Weston College Library ink stamps on t.p.
650 0 $aChinese language$vEarly works to 1800.
651 0 $aChina$xDescription and travel$vEarly works to 1800.
651 0 $aChina$xSocial life and customs$vEarly works to 1800.
655 7 $aBookplates (Provenance)$2rbprov
655 7 $aInk stamps (Provenance)$2rbprov
700 0 $aLeopold$bI,$cHoly Roman Emperor,$d1640-1705,$esponsor.
700 1 $aMeurs, Jacob van,$d1619-1680,$eprinter.
700 1 $aJanssonius van Waesberge, Johannes,$dactive 1642-1681,$ebookseller.
700 1 $aWeyerstraten, Elizaeus,$d-1667?,$ebookseller.
740 0 $aAthanasii Kircheri Soc. Iesv China illvst[rata]
752 $aNetherlands$dAmsterdam.
901 $aDigitized$cBCL$pEntire Work
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998 $cRICHTMYE 2010-10-21
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